I have problem to rotate screen on my new 7” Touch Screen with original stand. I have updated system according to instruction and also added lcd_rotate=2 line to /boot/config.txt. but the screen is still upside down.
Can you please send me some more instructions how to rotate it?

Actually, are you both using NOOBS? I’ve got a hypothesis. There aren’t many reasons I can conceive why this would happen, but something like the NOOBS startup not supporting this command while vanilla Raspbian does would seem plausible.

I think I’m going to have to set up NOOBS and investigate- I know lcd_rotate works on the raw Raspbian Jessie and Raspbian Wheezy images so it’s likely something to do with NOOBS.

markmagness:

Also just found out that the leg of the stand is in the way of the USB ports.

We took a calculated risk with that decision- figuring most people would plug at least a WiFi dongle and possibly also a wireless keyboard dongle into those ports.

The upside-down-ness was unavoidable, since a software update rotated the display after we’d already created the stand, and we ( or at least I, I don’t want to throw anyone under the bus ) still believe this way is the right way up due to the HDMI, power and audio cables.

Okay! I’ve managed to replicate the problem, that’s a good first step. It’s definitely something to do with NOOBS, although I’m really not sure what. I’m guessing NOOBS has a slightly different initial image that doesn’t support the lcd_rotate command.

I can’t fix it, but I can report the problem to people who can.

In the meantime you could fix it by installing Raspbian, but if you’re using NOOBS for multi-boot then that’s not much use to you.

I’m going to try downloading the latest NOOBS and see if I can use it to patch up my SD card.

Just to add to the confusion:
I downloaded NOOBS 1.4.2 yesterday and put it on a SD card.
Initial run has to be done with a HDMI or Analog display connected in order to install Raspbian.
I had both connected and the 7 inch display remained dark.
On first boot, the HDMI display showed the initial rainbow and then the NOOBS ‘press shift’ to enter recovery.
Then Raspbian booted on the 7 inch display. Of course upside down (RPi2 HDMI/USBpower/AV connectors at top).
Added lcd_rotate=2 to /boot/config.txt and rebooted (no HDMI connected).
Note that the Raspbian FAT32 boot partition is the 3rd partition on the SD card. The first 2 are for the NOOBS recovery.
Raspbian came up right side up on the 7 inch. No initial rainbow display, since that goes to the HDMI.
My guess, you are using an older version of NOOBS. This one (1.4.2) includes the 25.09.2015 4.1 kernel and boots straight into the desktop (=Jessie).
Curious to know what the explanation is.

It’s definitely odd. No rainbow screen on the LCD, and boots up by default with Overscan on- causing havoc with the touchscreen etc.

I can confirm that lcd_rotate=2 does work, too.

NOOBS adds a disable_overscan=0 to the bottom, plus a whole bunch of overscan settings. All the settings above need set to 0 in order to turn it off- disable_overscan=1 doesn’t seem to work. The LCD should probably ignore overscan altogether anyway since it doesn’t apply or make any sense whatsoever.